here. effectively, randy milch and executive counsel, we have no accuracy on the guardian newspaper story or the documents referenced, but a few items in these stories are important. and i just want to go on to say verizon continually takes steps to safedpard its customers privacy. nevertheless the law authorizes the federal courts to order a company to provide information in certain circumstances and if verizon were to receive such an order, we would be required to comply. here s what is so fascinating. just go back another administration and democrats were up in arms about the put aiot act and the civil libertys that we were all going to suffer, you know, an encroachment on, but it s very interesting to see dianne feinstein suggest that this is all legal, this happened and it s just meta-data. is that what we were expecting? reporter: i think so.